Re: pg_get_serial_sequence is inconsistent

Tom Lane wrote:
> Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> >> pg_get_serial_sequence() does dequoting/downcasing on its relation-name
> >> argument, but not on its column-name argument.
>
> > I presume the reason for that is that the first paramater can be qualified:
>
> Right. From a bare-functionality point of view there's nothing wrong
> with it, it just seems inconsistent and therefore likely to trip someone
> up in future.
>
> But it seems no one else cares, so I'll shut up about it ...

That behavior does seem strange to me. Would make it consistent have
any downsides? If not, we should do it.

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